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A recently launched website registered in Canada shared information on September 10 that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, assisted by Canadian-Armenian actress Arsine Khanjian, purchased a luxurious mansion worth $17.1 million in one of the elite districts of the Ontario province in September 2024.
The source, citing its sources from the Canadian Real Estate Association, reports that the property located in a district called Mississauga and known as the St. George Mansion was purchased by some Shell Company, which according to the website, is hiding the beneficial owner Pashinyan.
The Fact Investigation Platform has studied this news and the source having shared it.
What do we known about the sale of the mansion?
Google maps search shows that the St. George mansion is located in the Mississauga district of the Canadian province of Ontario.
According to Canadian open sources, the mentioned mansion was indeed sold in September 2024 for $17.1 million. At the same time, however, the Sam McDadi real estate agency, which was engaged in its sale, does not confirm the claim that the mansion was purchased by any company. On the contrary, without disclosing the identity of the buyer, the agency reports that the latter is a businessman.
Moreover, the CEO of the agency, Sam McDadi, told the Canadian magazine Real Estate that he received two offers: one from a buyer from the Greater Toronto Area, the other from his client, “a successful businessman who lived not far from Doulton Avenue and was familiar with the property.”
The property was sold to him.
In fact, open sources refute the newly launched website’s claim that the property was sold to a company covering Pashinyan. At the same time, the executor of the transaction notes that the buyer is a Canadian businessman.
It should be stressed that the article does not make a reference to any documents or other investigative materials substantiating the transaction attributed to Pashinyan.
A few-day-old website is impersonating The Times of Canada
The website that circulated the news, registered under the domain timescanada.ca, is only a few days old. According to the WHOIS platform, it was registered on September 4, 2025, and published the aforementioned article a few days later.
It is noteworthy that the newly created website is mimicking the real The Times of Canada media outlet, which is registered under the domain thetimesofcanada.com.
The newly launched website, in fact, has copied the identical name of the Times of Canada media outlet, imitating the website’s interface (design and colors) in order to mislead readers.
FIP.am has previously covered newly launched websites spreading false information using the Doppelgänger method: the term literally means a double of a living person, but in a digital, informational context it has the meaning of a fake, imitative website or domain.
How this method works: first, an attempt is made to mislead the reader. A fake website is created, the domain or name of which is very similar to the name of a real media outlet such as BBC News, but actually being bcb-news.com, or just as in the aforementioned case, France 24, but actually being courrierfrance24.com. Additionally, the same or similar logo, design, and language are used so that the difference remains unnoticed by the reader.
Next, they obviously spread disinformation and very often become active during critical political public events: elections, wars, environmental or other politically sensitive topics.
The disinformation resource portrayed Sean Previl, a journalist with the reputable Canadian media outlet Glob News, as the author of the article, using his professional profile photo.
Which sources disseminated the news?
FIP.am’s monitoring showed that the video was spread by the Azerbaijani propaganda resource Haqqin.az, as well as numerous social media accounts, including those engaged in pro-Russian propaganda (1,2 ).
Nane Manasyan
